Autumn Farm

Autumn Farm (秋圃, Aki Ho) is a 1939 hanging-scroll painting by Hashimoto Kansetsu in ink and color on silk, in the collection of the Adachi Museum of Art in Yasugi, Shimane. The painting belongs to the strand of quiet rural-life subjects that Kansetsu pursued throughout the 1930s, and the title aki ho — 'autumn fields' or 'autumn farm' — refers to the late-season rural landscape after the rice has been harvested, when stubble fields, drying grain, and gathered vegetables structure the visible world. The motif descends from centuries of Japanese painting and poetry on autumn rural labor, and Kansetsu's treatment combines that traditional vocabulary with the close observation of weather and seasonal change he had absorbed from Takeuchi Seihō. The painting is part of the Adachi Museum's extensive Kansetsu holdings and was documented through the Google Arts & Culture digital program.